EXPERT NOTES:
CONTEXT: Cool Shit
REACTIONS:
Expert 1: “We are all doomed…someone turned on SkyNet and the AIs became self aware.”
Expert 2: “Nice human interest story”
Expert 3: “Centaurs guys, … we need to join them.
{in the distance, metallic voices start chanting}: ‘ONE OF US! ONE OF US!'”
Time To Read = 4 minutes
QUOTES FROM SOURCE:
1. “What is less often remarked that R.U.R. also gave us the basic plot of so very many of our stories about robots and AI that have been made in the last hundred years.”
2. “The final act opens with Alquist, the last human, working in a lab, trying to recover the secrets for making robots because, as he reasons: “If there are no people at least let there be Robots, at least the reflections of man, at least his creation, at least his likeness!””
3. “In Čapek’s play I found a template for all of the stories and fears about robots that have stayed with us ever since.”
4. “Thought it was written in a time before there were any real robots, you’ve probably noticed a few themes that are present in this play that are still a part of the stories people tell about robots today:. This raises two important questions.”
5. “Čapek’s robots were more like genetically modified or cloned humans – they are still organic beings, but created through an industrial process.”